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Hello everyone, I just wanted to say that Squirt is doing wonderful as far as I can tell. Eats like a tank and is always cruising around his enclosure. If anyone remembers, I got him last year in March and he had really bad pyramiding as a baby. After keeping him in a 'closed chamber', he has doubled in size at least and his rough start are only little nubs on top of his smooth growing shell
I recently moved him into a Christmas tree storage box. He has one red heat bulb and a UVB bulb, both contained inside of the box. The temperature at basking is 101, and it never gets cooler than 82 at any place in his enclosure.
My humidity (I think because of my peat moss substrate) is never lower than 97%. My humidity gauge usually is maxed out at 100%. He gets 'fresh air' twice a day when I feed him. He has a humid hide with spanugum moss, but it's laughable because his whole thing is a humid hide. He sleeps in it every night regardless, though.
Is there such thing as too humid? He has no RI problems or anything like that. His eyes are bright and clear and he runs around his enclosure a lot. Jumps on his food like he's never been fed before lol. I think my temps being so high might be part of my success. But I could drill some holes for vents in the top if anyone thinks that such a high humidity could be harmful.
Thanks for reading, hope to get some replies soon! (I'll post pictures later tonight if I remember. I can't wait for you guys to see how big and smooth he is.)
I recently moved him into a Christmas tree storage box. He has one red heat bulb and a UVB bulb, both contained inside of the box. The temperature at basking is 101, and it never gets cooler than 82 at any place in his enclosure.
My humidity (I think because of my peat moss substrate) is never lower than 97%. My humidity gauge usually is maxed out at 100%. He gets 'fresh air' twice a day when I feed him. He has a humid hide with spanugum moss, but it's laughable because his whole thing is a humid hide. He sleeps in it every night regardless, though.
Is there such thing as too humid? He has no RI problems or anything like that. His eyes are bright and clear and he runs around his enclosure a lot. Jumps on his food like he's never been fed before lol. I think my temps being so high might be part of my success. But I could drill some holes for vents in the top if anyone thinks that such a high humidity could be harmful.
Thanks for reading, hope to get some replies soon! (I'll post pictures later tonight if I remember. I can't wait for you guys to see how big and smooth he is.)